Monica Lewinsky is giving her two cents on the “circus” surrounding the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Lewinsky, 48, wrote in an editorial piece for Vanity Fair before Wednesday’s bombshell decision in the trial between Depp, 58, and Heard, 36, that the “legal spectacle would be sad enough if it just impacted the personal lives of Depp, Heard, and their loved ones.” (In his defamation action against Heard for her 2018 op-ed about coming forward with domestic abuse allegations, Depp won all three counts.) The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages, but due to a Virginia law cap on punitive damages, Heard will only have to pay $10.35 million.)

“It would be sad enough even if we just considered how it has impacted domestic violence survivors or those who have sought strength in the #MeToo movement. However, it’s the larger implications for our culture that concern me the most: the ways we have stoked the flames of misogyny and, separately, the celebrity circus,” Lewinsky added in the piece, which was published Tuesday.

She went on to say that the ease of ability to watch the trial, through streaming means, makes many “think, subconsciously, that we have a right to look and watch. To judge. To comment.”

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“And we end up with this confusing cultural crossover of watching two people (whom we are used to seeing as actors acting on a screen) in a setting — a courtroom — where we would normally expect them to be assuming their characters’ roles,” she continued, referring to the seemingly addictive nature of the trial as “courtroom porn” and drawing parallels to the soma drug in the classic dystopian social science fiction novel, Brave New World.

In her piece, Lewinsky joked about her own past notoriety (her mid-’90s romance with former President Bill Clinton, an era-defining political scandal that propelled his impeachment) and observed that she “wasn’t surprised” that the memes she saw about Heard “far outnumbered those about” Depp.